DAILY TRUTH - It Matters Where A Christian Lives
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In this episode of Daily Truth, Pastor Ken teaches on the importance of being a church plantor in urban environments, and why it s important to be a church planter and not just a church missionary. God bless!
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urban inner city ministry that was all the rage and still is i don't know how but
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apparently still is for the last 30 years 40 years right it's like if you want to be somebody
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if you want to be a serious christian you need to be a pastor and not just a pastor you need
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to be a church planter and not just a church planter if you go plant a church in a small
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town in texas or tennessee we're not going to say it verbatim but i mean you're kind of
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disappointing god right you're going to go minister to those those primitive neanderthal
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blue collar flyover country hillbilly christians no no no you want to you want to do something
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that pleases the lord go to manhattan right go to seattle and i i personally think
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and so i don't think that it's particularly advantageous for us to continue to encourage
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young men who are called to marry to have children to honor their father and mother in tangible ways
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provide for their wives so that predominantly they could be keepers at home provide for their
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children seek to fill a quiver with children not hand them to caesar in the public school system
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but to raise them up in the fear and ammunition of the lord the paideia of the lord christian
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curriculum and seek to leave an inheritance not only to their children but their children's
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children and then say and you should do that while being a church planter in manhattan
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what no no no just just leave outside the gate outside the city no just leave you don't have to
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go and plant in manhattan you don't have to go to seattle you don't have to be a church planter
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or a missionary, or a faithful Christian in San Francisco. God may call some to stay in those
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contexts. But I believe currently, this isn't for all times and all places, but the sons of Issachar,
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the skill that they had was they were able to know the times. We as Christians need to be able
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to know the times. Not just ideologues that think that, well, doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. It's
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always, we don't need to be ideologues, but we also don't need to be opportunists. So we don't
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just stick our finger in the wind and see whatever the popular culture is saying at the time, and we
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just echo that. We're not opportunists who are compromised, but we're also not foolish ideologues
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who are suicidal, kamikaze fighters. No, no, no, no. We want to have not just a five-year plan,
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but a 500-year plan. We want to build to last. If you want to be a farmer, don't start a crop
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a million potatoes from Idaho instead of carving up and sharing one that you grew right there
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at ground zero. We can't afford to be ideologues and suicidal. We also cannot afford to be
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compromised opportunists who just go where the wind blows. But I believe in this current moment,
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a very practical application of our text, the Hebrew Christians, ultimately the big idea that
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I'm trying to get at with this text and I'll land the plane here. The big idea is this. If Christ is
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really enough, then you don't need Judaism. If Christ is really enough and the temple that he's
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building is a living and spiritual temple, then you don't need this geographic place. You don't
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need this temple of stone. You don't need this city that crucified him, but you could actually
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follow him he was taken outside of the city to be put to death and you can go and find him right out
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there and you as christians you you can seek to live quiet lives as the scripture says elsewhere
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to work with your hands you are allowed to do that brothers and sisters and any high-minded
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sophisticated ivory tower seminary professor professional pastor on the internet who tells
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you otherwise is lying. You are not being faithless or compromising or being displeasing to God by
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saying, I want to raise children. I want to have grandchildren. I want to own a couple acres of
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land, and I'm going to do it, not in Manhattan. You're allowed to do that, brother and sister.
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You're allowed to do that. And that doesn't mean you quit. It doesn't mean you surrendered. It
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doesn't mean you lost. It doesn't mean you sinned. I think it means you're wise. And to do the
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alternative i think is foolish some can do it if you're a millionaire okay maybe you can do it
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even then though i would make an argument theologically and practically some can do it
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live in that bright blue liberal city and a blue state some can do it even then you have to make
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a reasonable biblical argument that you should do it what do your taxes go to is there a state tax
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all right let's let's read it do you see Planned Parenthood popping out
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are you literally giving money to kill children okay let's just do some math here
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can I live here can I live here those are questions that Christians should ask real
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questions and i understand that well well i'm gonna have to go to the the moon all right well
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let's keep rooting for elon then you know like i i understand no matter where you live you're gonna
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have you're gonna be you're gonna be funding something that's vile but not all evils are equal
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i don't like paying property taxes for schools that i'm not even going to use
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especially schools in the austin area and surrounding that that you walk in and it's like
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it's just like you're swimming in a rainbow. I don't like that. But there is a lesser and greater
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of evils. And the Christian can't opt for supporting a public school that's progressive
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and liberal versus supporting health care that sucks babies out of their mothers with a vacuum.
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Those are not equal. There is a sliding scale. And we have a choice where we're going to raise
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our kids, where we're going to start a business, where we're going to pay our taxes. We have a
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choice what church we're going to be a part of. We have a choice what land we're going to buy and
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leave as an inheritance to our grandkids. Right now, you have an opportunity to be thinking about
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not the five-year plan, but the 500-year plan. Where can I best set up my great, great, great
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grandchildren? Can I be frank with you for just a second right here at the end? Look, some of you
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guys, you're financially supporting this ministry. And from the bottom of my heart, I say thank you.
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I cannot thank you enough. However, some of you, you just, you can't afford it. In fact, some of
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you, you shouldn't afford it. Let's be honest. I mean, we're living in Joe Biden's ridiculous
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economy. Our nation and our totalitarian political elites lost their minds over the last three years
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due to COVID. We have written checks that we simply cannot cash. It doesn't matter if people
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change the definition of a recession. We are living in a recession right now regardless.
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Some of you are struggling to afford a carton of eggs at the grocery store. You cannot support
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financially this ministry at this time, nor should you, but you could still help us tremendously.
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